Wales and the Romantic Imagination

Editor(s) Damian Walford Davies,Lynda Pratt

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies

  • July 2007 · 256 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708320662

Devoted exclusively to the appropriation of Wales, its landscape, history, and culture, by writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This volume represents a key intervention in on-going debates about the relation between Romanticism and national identity, antiquarianism, politics, print culture and gender.

Author(s): Damian Walford Davies

Damian Walford Davies is lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the editor of William Wordsworth: Selected Poems (1994) and has written widely on Romantic authors and twentieth-century Welsh writing in both English and Welsh. His forthcoming books include an edition of Waldo Williams' prose, William Wordsworth: The Prelude: A critical Edition and an edition of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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